Spring Open Studios

16 Mar 2024 12-6pm

Overview

With Alice Visentin (Italy), Katherine Nuñez (Phillipines), NadiA (El Salvador), Odur Ronald (Uganda), Riar Rizaldi (Indonesia)

Get to know our artists in residence at this free event offering visitors a unique opportunity to see, hear about and discuss the research and work-in-progress that the artists have been developing over the past three months. 

Alice Visentin's paintings, drawings, projections, and moving images explore the generative capacity of the imagination, and the potential of finding new experiences and sensations through encounters with others. (Artist presentation from 2pm)

Alice Visentin’s residency is supported by Fondazione Memmo.

José García Oliva works with people, organisations, and archives to create forms of playful resistance. Drop-in between 12:30-13:30 during Open Studios to engage with a Latin American protest archive and explore the symbols, words, and images migrant labourers have used to fight against oppressive working conditions. (Artist presentation from 2pm)

Gasworks' Participation Residency Artist Programme is funded by the City Bridge Trust.

NadiA uses drawing, writing, video, poetry, photography, and drag to question different conceptions around gender identity, interpersonal relationships, classism, and the political / art histories of her home country El Salvador. (Artist presentation from 2pm)

NadiA’s residency is supported by The Shelagh Wakely Bequest, administered by the Elephant Trust.

Katherine Nuñez focuses on the labour of care, and the desire to create spaces of tenderness, and nurture despite everyday aggressions and urban disarray. Working with textile, employing embroidery, beadwork, and eco-dyeing to create pieces that have a certain softness and ephemerality to them created from hours of rigorous labour. (Artist presentation from 4pm)

Katherine Nuñez’s residency is supported by Mercedes Zobel.

Odur Ronald uses aluminium printing plates to explore the ideas of free movement, migration, access, belonging and personhood. By denting, burning, layering, stitching, painting, and weaving, he transforms this commonplace material into detailed sculptures and installations, achieving texture, colour, shape and character. (Artist presentation from 4pm)

Odur Ronald’s residency is supported by Mercedes Vilardell.

Riar Rizaldi is interested in worldviews and the complexity of belief systems, with particular focus on his home of Indonesia. Using speculative science-fiction, he examines the consequences of advanced technology and modern science to the social, political, and cultural life of human and nonhuman in Southeast Asia. (Artist presentation from 4pm)

Riar Rizaldi's residency is supported by Prue MacLeod.

Video interviews of the artists discussing their recent projects and research will be available on our website for those who are unable to visit.

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